One representative tweet called Mannie’s work “ignorant & homophobic” Thought Catalog declared, “It’s all bullshit. “I don’t care how well you can quote Madea, who told you that your booty was getting bigger than hers, how cute you think it is to call yourself a strong black woman, who taught you to twerk, how funny you think it is to call yourself Quita or Keisha or for which black male you’ve been bottoming - you are not a black woman, and you do not get to claim either blackness or womanhood.” “I need some of you to cut it the hell out,” Mannie wrote. Last week, Time’s website published an essay with the headline “ Dear White Gays: Stop Stealing Black Female Culture.” Written by Sierra Mannie, a rising senior at the University of Mississippi, it had originally appeared in her student newspaper. Photo: Off White Productions/Courtesy Everett Collection
